36-YEAR-OLD FORMER DRILL RAPPER TURNED GOSPEL ARTIST FIVIO FOREIGN DROPS HIS THIRD VERSION OF βBIG DRIPβ AND FIRES BACK AT 50 CENT! πππΎπ₯
J Hood 174 speaks on how Eric Holder, the man convicted of murdering Nipsey Hussle, was treated inside LA County Jail.
Did Holder underestimate how much Nipsey meant to Los Angeles?
Frankie Muniz had 38 cars before he turned 18.
Then his girlfriend found a $41,000 charge for βresearchβ that he never made.
βIt says you spent $41,000 on research last month.β
βI didnβt spend $41,000 on anything.β
βCall him right now and ask.β
So Muniz called his business manager.
He says the man immediately got βreally frazzled.β
Muniz had grown up without money. Once Malcolm in the Middle took off, one of the first people hired to manage his new life was this man.
βI really, really trusted him,β Muniz says.
But that $41,000 call made him start going through years of records.
He says he found expenses that made no sense, car insurance far higher than the cars were worth, and deals involving the managerβs friends.
The person trusted to protect a child starβs money had been handling it while the child was too busy becoming famous to question every line.
Muniz says the documents eventually filled banker boxes.
But by the time he understood what had happened, the statute of limitations had expired. Police couldnβt help.
He had 38 cars before he was 18.
And nobody had asked why he was supposedly spending $41,000 a month on βresearch.β
How many child stars looked rich enough that nobody noticed they were being robbed?
Happy birthday to the Father of Rock N' Roll, the legendary, Chuck Berry! He would have been 100 today!
Chuck Berry is perhaps the defining musician of the early rock & roll era, the one figure responsible for the music's sound, style, and sensibility that created the blueprint for the generations that followed.
A guitarist who wanted to play like T-Bone Walker and croon like Nat King Cole, Berry married these two styles to a swinging beat that spliced jump blues with juke joint R&B and hillbilly boogie -- a blend that arrived nearly fully realized with his 1955 debut single "Maybellene," a record that topped the R&B charts and crashed into the pop Top Ten.
Berry quickly followed "Maybellene" with a series of fleet-fingered, quick-witted singles like "Roll Over Beethoven," "School Day," "Sweet Little Sixteen," and "Johnny B. Goode" that constitute one of the richest and deepest American songbooks of the 20th century, a collection of tunes that captures the exuberance of post-war popular culture, a period filled with automobiles, teenagers, and rock & roll music. It was also a period of great racial strife, something Berry alluded to in his work -- witness the Black pride of "Brown Eyed Handsome Man."
Berry's prison sentence for violating the Mann Act coincided with a cooling of rock & roll's commercial fortunes in the early 1960s. When he was released, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had revived rock & roll, an opening Berry seized with a series of terrific hit singles: "No Particular Place to Go," "You Never Can Tell," and "Nadine."
During the late '60s, Berry became the only one of his rock & roll peers to actively court a younger audience of hippies, a move that eventually paid off in 1972 when the ribald "My Ding-A-Ling" gave him his only number one hit.
Berry effectively retired from active duty after 1979's Rockit, but he continued to play regular gigs with pickup bands and experienced the occasional revival, such as Taylor Hackford's 1987 celebratory concert film and documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll.
During his later years, Berry retired to his hometown of St. Louis, playing regular gigs at Blueberry Hill until the late 2010s. Upon his 90th birthday in 2016, Berry announced the release of his first album in decades but he would not live to see the release of Chuck in 2017; he passed on March 18, 2017.
13 years ago today, Nipsey Hussle released the #Crenshaw mixtape π
- The $100 mixtape that changed the game
- Sold 1,000+ copies in less than 24 hours
- Jay-Z bought 100 copies for $10K
The Marathon Continues.
Today we celebrate NH. All$IN/PROUD2PAY
#TheMarathonContinues
Camβron couldnβt stop LAUGHING when a fan called in just to make Ma$e EXPLAIN HIMSELF over one of his most questionable old lyrics ππ
βYou bring your crew and βem and Iβm doing βem, then Iβm beating βem down with aluminum, then Iβm putting two in βem.β
βI was wondering what you meant by βDOING THEMββ¦ and why is it TWO? Two of WHAT exactly?β ππ